Rosewater School

A large group of students and teachers stands outside a two-story brick building in this 6 1/2" x 4 1/4" black and white photograph. They watch several students standing around a May pole erected on the lawn, holding the ribbons dangling from the top of the pole. The building has many windows on each story and a cupola on top. There are columns in the front of the building, supporting a stone panel with the name of the school carved in it. There are a few small trees on the lawn, and a sidewalk runs in front of the school.

This building replaced the original Forest School, which stood at the same location. It as renamed for Edward Rosewater, the editor of the Omaha Bee Newspaper. Rosewater was a state representative in the late 1800s. He introduced legislation in 1871 to create the first Omaha Public School Board. At about this time, he founded the Omaha Bee "in order to promote his point of view" to Omaha voters. After the school closed in 1983, a developer converted it to 32 apartments. The building is in the Second Renaissance Revival style and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.